This is a jointly owned lab by CSE and IT department. It is an initiative by IIT Bombay that aims to create the next generation of embedded systems engineers with a practical outlook to help provide practical solutions to some of the real-world problems. It is sponsored by MHRD under the National Mission on Education through ICT program. IIT Bombay envisages the “e-Yantra” platform to harness the intellectual talent of young India to create utility based robotic applications for usage across variety of applications such as agriculture, manufacturing, defense, home, city maintenance and services industries.